
Tudor Monastery Farm
- 2013
- Ended
- Documentary · Reality
- ~1h / ep
- 1 season
- 9.1/10
Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back 500 years to the early Tudor period to become tenant farmers on monastery land.
Latest: Season 1 · 2013
View all seasonsE1. Episode 1
Nov 13, 2013 · 60m
Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold run a farm exactly as it would have been in 1500.
E2. Episode 2
Nov 20, 2013 · 60m
A look at wool production in 1500, which accounted for around half the country's wealth.
E3. Episode 3
Nov 27, 2013 · 60m
This episode focuses on the staple foods of everyday Tudor life - bread and ale.
E4. Episode 4
Dec 4, 2013 · 60m
The team learn how aspirational tenant farmers would have decorated their farmhouses.
E5. Episode 5
Dec 11, 2013 · 60m
The team explores Tudor hospitality, learning how the monasteries courted wealthy donors.
E6. Episode 6
Dec 18, 2013 · 60m
The team look back at how Henry VIII's Dissolution brought an end to monastic farming.























